It's your fault we were knocked out! Arshavin under fire after arguing with fans

Andrey Arshavin is facing widespread calls to be axed from the Russia team after reportedly arguing with fans after the country's Euro 2012 exit.

The Arsenal forward struggled to keep his cool when confronted in the lobby of Warsaw's luxury Bristol Hotel after the shock 1-0 defeat by Greece, according to Oleg Koshelev, a journalist with Russian media outlet Gazeta.

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The honorary president of the Russian FA Vyacheslav Koloskov strongly condemned the 31-year-old.

'Such words are not worthy of the captain,' he said. 'Arshavin has never been in the position of traveling across the country to support the team at his own expense.

'The whole team should bow down to these guys. Fans come to see good football, total commitment from players and the willingness to stand up for their country.

'Instead, the captain says it's not the players' problem, but the fans' problem.

'I believe that such a captain should not be in the team.'

During the exchange, Arshavin was apparently made aware that he was talking to a member of the Russian parliament.

Arshavin is said to have replied: 'When I am at the Duma I will present a report in front of you.

'We lost because we didn't score and Greece scored. Nothing will change because of these discussions.' Fans, coaches and former players reacted with anger to the report, and former Spartak Moscow striker Valery Reingold said: 'Arshavin is impudent and a lout, a person who reached the limit of insolence.

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'The team suffers for his antics. A coach like Viktor Ponedelnik would kick him you know where and send him back to Arsenal, or wherever he's playing now.'This is a spoiled kid who can't plow a field.'

The Russian FA's former press spokesman called for current FA president Sergey Fursenko to quit and said Arshavin should be 'permanently deprived of the right to play for the national team'.

Arshavin has returned to Moscow with team-mates but is yet to respond. His usual post-match interview on his official website said simply: 'So far I have nothing to say.'

None of the players would speak to journalists and virtually all snubbed fans as they checked out of the Bristol Hotel on Sunday morning.

Alan Dzagoev was one of the few to be praised, receiving shouts of 'good lad' as he boarded the team bus, but he looked glum on what was his 22nd birthday.

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Arshavin refused to speak to journalists on arrival at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport. Dzagoev was the only member of the squad who would answer questions. No fans arrived to greet the team.

Arshavin did however tell Sport-Express: 'Of course I wanted to play better in the tournament. 'People like to point fingers. Throughout my career, so much has been poured on both on me and my teams that another bucket doesn't make a lot of difference.

'Every man will find the explanation that he wants to find (for our failure).

'I definitely want to be in the fight to get to the World Cup.'

'I'm going to relax for a week. I have a valid contract (with Arsenal), so the question of my employment is not so acute. But it is possible there will be options.'